Germany

Capital city — Berlin

Country population
83,222,442
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2021
/ Federal Statistical Office of Germany
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
70
Bavarian prisons…
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12/01/2022
/ Süddeutsche Zeitung
Type of government
Federal parliamentary democracy
Human Development Index
0.947
(6/188)
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2022
/ United Nations Development Program, "Human Development Reports"
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.9
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2018
/ World Bank
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Federal Ministry of Justice and Consume…
Each federal stat…
Total number of prisoners
59,045
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2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2021, p.45
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
4.7
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2021
/ Council of Europe, “Annual Penal Statistics. Space I – Prison Populations. Survey 2021, p. 124.
Prison density
82 %
Hamburg’s six cor…
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20/07/2022
/ Hamburger Abendblatt
Total number of prison facilities
179
including 13 open…
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2018
An NPM has been established
yes
The MNP initially…
Female prisoners
5.7 %
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12/2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Rapport 2021, p.45.
Incarcerated minors
1 %
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12/2021
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Rapport 2021, p.45
Percentage of untried prisoners
20 %
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06/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
yes, in 1949 in the FRG and in 1987 in…
The death penalty…

CAT - United Nations Convention Against Torture
CISST - Civil Society in the Penal System
CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
EU - European Union
DFR - Federal Republic of Germany
RDA - German Democratic Republic
GG-BO - Prisoners’ Union - National Federation (Gefangener Gewerkschaft - Bundesweite Organisation)
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
ICPR - Institute for Criminal Policy Research
LGBTI - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex persons
MNP - National Preventive Mechanism
OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OHCHR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
PPP - Private-Public Partnership
SPACE - Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics
SPT - Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
TCPS - Turkey’s Center for Prison Studies (Centre turc d’études sur la prison)
WHO - World Health Organisation